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Tuesday, January 19, 2016
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Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Thousand mourn dean of prominent Haredi yeshiva
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews swell the streets of Jerusalem during the funeral procession ceremony of Rabbi Rafael Shmuelovich, the long-time dean of the Mir Yeshiva.
He died Monday at the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem. He was 78.
Shuelovich had served as the dean or “Rosh Yeshiva” of the Mir Yeshiva since 1979 when his father, the previous dean passed away.
He was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or ALS in 2012 and given just months to live but showed signs of recovery after experimental stem cell treatment at Hadassah Medical Center.
He was the subject of a Channel 2 News documentary on the treatment.
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